Update and venting
Ouf!
I can breathe again. Lately, I had to do my annual inventory at work which includes a long trip to Toronto and many hours of Overtime. After five years, I am getting the knack for it but it is still strenuous.
Not only that but for the past few years, I have brought my mate to work to help me do the counting so I wouldn’t work too many long hours but this year, I had a complaint about it. It seems that now, one of the managers (not mine but still) wasn’t happy about that and next year, I won’t be able to bring him in. I found it weird that a company would refuse free help but hey, if they want me to charge them three times the amounts of overtime next year, it is their call. I must say that I still have problems with how the world is turning and where we are heading. What will be left when humanity will be obsolete and that only logic and procedures will be left in our lives…
Right after these two weeks of insanity, I was sent to Vancouver to close our base there. That was a kamikaze trip. 8 hours overtime, two time changes and two flights in less than 48hours all that squeezed within my normal week of work.
The trip was long but I met a fury there which will probably become a friend and because of him I greatly enjoyed my time in Vancouver. I haven’t been there for 25 years and I can't wait to go back for a week (or two) of vacation as soon as my finance will permit us to do so.
As if that wasn’t enough, at the same time, I had to cram to finalize the WTF schedule. I wish I had a bit more panels to fill out the rooms but for a first year, I am very happy with what we will be offering to the attendees of WTF. My only regret is that I probably won’t be able to attend even one panel; me who would have liked to attend almost all of them.
It was hard work (and will be again when comes that weekend) but it was overall gratifying. I was touch by the offers I got even if so many friends around me were going through rough times... but there are things that really infuriated me.
Some local (well from the same province) members of a certain group decided to make a campaign against the convention without even taking the time to get the right information. I, WE made our best to be able to offer a bilingual convention where everyone could have fun and interact equally in both languages. So it was hard on many of the staffing when they were lynched for their good efforts.
It is funny to see how they were and still are condemning people for their lack of good use of the French language when they aren’t able themselves to write a simple correct sentence in French. I only wish that instead of taking the angry road of protestation, they would have chosen the more constructive road of propositions. We would have loved to have more participation from them instead of free attacks. I still hope that they’ll show up regardless of their bravado of not attending such a failure that this con will be. I sincerely hope that they’ll come and enjoy themselves so that next year they’ll feel more open to help us in making this convention even better than it will be this year.
You can say that I am an hopeless dreamer but I wish someday, people will see life, obstacles and differences in a more positive way; that they will see in them opportunities to raise and shine rather than to express their fears and difference of views through their anger.
There are things coming my way very soon and these promises have been brightening my days lately. WTF promises to be a long and demanding weekend but it will also be the opportunity to touch ground with so many good friends that I missed so much this year. I also have decided to take my first week of vacation at the end of June and I will use it to visit friends (old and potentially new ones too).
And that was it for me today. Next post will probably be only after WTF.